Review of Darkest Hour (2017) by Axet — 31 Dec 2017
Sure handed seriously crafted historical portrait drama is educational if also dry and slow but not to the detrimental effect the incredibly over-rated and poor "Dunkirk" is, and this is brought up because this film deals with the same events but in vastly different perspective (the two movies could even serve as companion pieces in schools with this being the behind the scenes dialogue driven government maneuvering and that being the visceral non-verbal soldiers and civilians battlefront, but the former standing alone is inadequate for commercial cinema).
Gary Oldman is extraordinary and unrecognizable and surely deserves an Oscar nom not for makeup and diction, but for delivering a man's greatness.
This review of Darkest Hour (2017) was written by Axet on 31 Dec 2017.
Darkest Hour has generally received very positive reviews.
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